Sorey, Tyshawn
The 1975’s Chamber-Pop Confessions, and 8 More New Songs
Matty Healy, the proudly enigmatic singer-songwriter of the 1975, leads his group into chamber-pop with “Part of the Band,” the first song from an album due in October, “Being Funny in a Foreign Language.” He sings about “cringes and heroin binges,” about a “vaccinista tote-bag chic barista” and about literary-minded gay liaisons — “I was […]
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50 Years Later, the Rothko Chapel Meets a New Musical Match
Before Tyshawn Sorey composed a note of his latest work, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Rothko Chapel in Houston, he spent hours inside its octagonal temple containing more than a dozen dark canvases. Immersing himself in Mark Rothko’s fields of seeming black, Sorey noticed that the paintings shifted subtly over time — and that […]
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The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2021
Andy Akiho: ‘Pillar III’ “Seven Pillars”; Sandbox Percussion (Aki Rhythm Productions) A lush, brooding celebration of noise, “Seven Pillars” is the sprawling result of a deep collaboration between a composer and a percussion quartet. Mixing antsy chimes and a low-slung beat below, “Pillar III” builds in force before collapsing in ferocious shudders, explosions and shivers […]
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